One hell of an adventure

Kate and I..........Got horribly lost. We had no idea where we were in the forest anymore, I think we were walking in circles. ‘Kate, where the hell are we!?’ I finally decided to point it out, hopefully she would say that we were lost and not try and act awesome.

“We....Um....We’re heading the right way! So keep going!” I facepawed and sighed.

‘Fine, jeez.’ I kept walking when it began to rain, I did not mind this, I liked the rain, it was peaceful and slow. To me it sounded like music but by the looks of it Kate thought it was annoying. She used my wings to cover herself up while complaining like ‘Why does it have to rain now!?’ and ‘I blame you for getting us lost!’ to which I responded with a growl. The rain, however, did not last very long and something strange happened, the ground below us had started getting soft.

“Um, what’s with the sand?” I finally got to paying attention and looked forward to see a HUGE sandstorm right ahead of us.

‘I smell adventure!’ I chuckled and she whacked me me on the head.

“No, we are not going in there! Turn around now!” I turned my head to look into her rage filled eyes.

‘No can do lass, there might be a town on the other side of that so I’m going to take the risk. You can get off if you want, brave the jungle by yourself and more then likely get taken by dogs or something. Go right ahead.’ I waited there a while and when she didn't get off my back I kept going forward.

“You better hope you're right...” I grinned at my victory and sped up a bit, maybe I could fly through the storm at a high speed to avoid getting lost in it. I began sprinting as fast as I could and when I got right next to the storm I took flight. Entering the storm stung, but I got the hang of it and kept flying. It was hard to see in here but if I kept flying then we would get through it. I heard Kate say something but could not understand her, the winds of the storm must be taking away her voice.

‘What?’ I turned my head to her to see a look of pure fear on her face. ‘......Kate, what is it?’ She pointed a shaking finger in front of her and I turned my head just in time to run face first into a wall of scales. ‘What dah fuck?’ I shook my head and looked at my impact zone.

“Austin...” I turned my head to Kate with a blank stare. “We just ran into a dragon...” I turned my head slowly to my right to see a HUGE head swing over to it’s side slowly and look at us with it’s HUGE ASS EYES!

“svabol ui nomeno?” It’s voice nearly made me deaf, damn these sensitive ears. “mablik drekimi persvek sia domain?!” It hissed in its language and shook it’s back, making us fall off the side, screaming in terror. “si nishka ti shala wux ekess dolruth drekimi di wer caesin! wux nishka xkhat sia frevor meal!” Ok I understood the words ‘domain’ and ‘meal’ and I did not like that last part. I spun around and caught Kate with one paw, setting her on my back and glaring at her out of fear.

‘Hold on!’ I shot forward as the things head came forward with its jaws open, trying to swallow us whole. ‘HOLY SHIT!’ I shuddered as I HEARD its jaws snap shut, making a loud as all hell sound when it did.

“LOOK OUT!” Kate yelled and grabbed my ears hard, making pain shoot through me like never before. She made me just avoid the wings of the huge ass dragon. “This is strange.” She said as we shot away from the dragon. “Dragons don’t normally get this big, and it’s scales were not any kind of normal dragons color, they were broze like.” Not that she points that out I do remember seeing the bronze colored scales and the ridiculous size of the beast.

‘Kind of don’t want to think about that now, we almost died because of that thing and I kind of want to find a place to land and panic in peace.’ I swear I heard a chuckle, but I could be wrong. We flew for a whole minute before the storm stopped and I landed. I waited a moment before collapsing in the sand and letting out a long and loud groan, cause awesome people don’t scream. Kate fell off my back and shivered there even tho its hotter then the sun here, but neither of us seemed to notice at the time.

“I. NEVER want to do that again! I mean WHAT THE HELL! WHY!” I yelled almost starting to cry. Kate sat up with a sigh.

“Well, no time to cry over it now. We need to find a town.” I kept my head in the sand for a bit until she lifted it up and glared at me. “Now.” I whimpered and got up.

‘You get to ride on my fucking back and I have to walk, I feel loved.’ She giggled at me and climbed up onto my back. I finally got to look around and what I saw just made me mad, the only thing I could see for MILES was what looked like the very top of a castle to the south and two sandstorms next to it. ‘I am starting to really hate this place...’ I muttered and started walking. As we walked Kate would complain about the heat and ask why it wouldn’t rain here. A few hours later the top of the palace grew to show a large light brown and blue castle like place surrounded by large walls. ‘How much you want to bet those walls are going to be stocked with archers just ready to shoot at us?’

“I think you would win.” Kate replied as she leaned forward to get a better look. “What is this place?”

‘Not a clue, but it looks like somewhere we can rest. Hopefully we can get in with me being a manticore and all.’ She patted my head and sat up tall.

“Maybe if you look like a mount we can get in without any trouble.” I nodded in agreement but nearly tripped when I felt something on my tail.

‘The hell you doing back there!?’ I turned my head around to see her wrapping the tip of my tail with some spare leather we had.

“I need to make you look tame! Just calm down.” She sighed and finished wrapping my tail up. It was uncomfortable but I suppose I should get use to it. We were getting closer and I could see some pony guards come to the edge of the wall to look at us. Soon we came to a massive gate, makes me wonder why they need a gate that big, looks like it could let a dragon through. A guard came from a door to the side of the large gate, he was wearing a soft but determined look on his face as he approached.

“Good day to you ma'am, to enter I just need you to sign a form in the office we have this way, we will take your mount and feed and water it while you sign the form.” Kate nodded and reluctantly climbed off of my back.

“Um, don’t force him to do anything and don’t take any of my bags please.” The guard smiled at her and whistled. Two more guards left the door to the side and one patted my side.

“Come on fella.” I let them lead me to the other side of the gate where a slightly larger door was. I could smell fresh water on the other side so my mouth began to water. “Must be hungry, come on let’s get him in so he doesn't bust down the door.” The guard chuckled and knocked on the door. It opened slowly to show something that looked like a stable. Kind of strange ponies have actual stable here, kind of funny if you ask me. I was lead to a stable that was clean and had some water and....Meat? I did not think ponies could kill like that, I have to get used to this world being not-so-peaceful.

“Damn meat eaters...” I heard the other guard say as he closed a small gate behind me. “I know we have to be nice but dear Celestia why do we have to let things like this in our city?” The other guard said something but I didn’t hear it cause they got too far away. I drank some water and ate some meat then began my waiting. I was there a half an hour before I saw Kate being escorted over to my stable.

“...As you can see we kept him nice and safe, we did not dare take the bags incase you trained him to defend your things.” He gave me a look and shuddered, damn right I’m trained, in badass-ness!

“Thanks, come on Fluffy let’s go into the city.” I swear I’m going to kill her for that, or hurt her really bad. The guard unlocked my gate and I walked out. Acting like a good mount I walked over to Kate and licked her on the face. The guard let out a ‘aww’ but Kate had to resist hitting me. “Looks like he missed you.” He chuckled a bit. “Alright, follow me.” She got up onto my back and we followed the guard out of the stable area and back outside to the front gate. He whistled again and the door rumbled. The huge door opened slowly and revealed a huge area that looked like a market, the thing that surprised me was there were all kinds of races here! There were d-dogs, ponies, griffins, DRAGONS! This place was huge and filled with all kinds of diffrent people! “Welcome,” The guard spoke with a grin. “to Oasis!”